Sayd Randle

Dozens of Palestinians killed in latest Israeli attacks near food aid distribution site, medics and witnesses say Witnesses describe people shot in head and torso near sites run by Israeli-backed US organisation Gaza Humanitarian Foundation

There is no longer any doubt that Israel has set up a fake humanitarian organisation so it can kettle Gazans into a kill box and murder them en masse

It is evil beyond description and in a decent world it would result in immediate, massive, global action to stop them and prosecute those responsible

The issue contains a seven-article Symposium, "Political Ecologies of Storage for the 21st Century", organised by @saydrandle.bsky.social and @matthewarcher.bsky.social

Grid-Scale Battery Storage Is Quietly Revolutionizing the Energy System This energy storage technology is harnessing the potential of solar and wind power—and its deployment is growing exponentially.

www.wired.com/story/grid-s... yupppp

What, and I repeat, the fuck?

I trust any source Jeremy trusts and will be taking his advice tonight.

legends walk among us

The 66-year-old woman kicking this guy’s ass is a retired professor of medicine with 16,000 citations on Google Scholar

Goals

Columbia student and New Yorker, Mahmoud Khalil - who was targeted and detained for constitutionally protected speech - should be home with his 8 months pregnant wife today.

Not missing in ICE detention, unreachable by his lawyers.

1/15

A flyer for a protest tomorrow which reads Monday, March 10 4PM Jacob K. Javits Federal Building 26 Federal Plaza, NYC EMERGENCY MOBILIZATION! RELEASE MAHMOUD KHALIL HANDS OFF OUR STUDENTS ICE OFF OUR CAMPUSES MON. MAR 10 • 4PM

Tomorrow in NYC will be sunny & pleasant. This will be important.

Yes. If DHS can barge in, say your visa was revoked, be told you have a green card, say it's revoked too, and then disappear you so that neither your lawyer nor your family can find you, then all the guardrails are gone. There is no policy, practice, or law protecting anyone.

The NIH announced it will slash billions of dollars of support to universities and research centers.

This is one of the biggest attacks on science we have ever seen. It could dismantle the biomedical research system, shut down clinical trials, and halt development of treatments.

The past month seems to have spiked interest in questions about how and why water circulates (or not) within the US West. This collection offers some rich, thoughtful, and challenging answers. Thanks to my co-editor Kathleen Sullivan and all the contributors for your work on bringing it into being

Pistachio moguls and reservoirs: False water claims spread about California fires Influencers and politicians are spreading false narratives about water and the L.A. wildfires. These include the idea that farm moguls took firefighting water and an empty reservoir is part of a plot.

The water misinfo climate is rife.

Many conspiracy theories around the LA wildfires + water supplies revolve around billionaire pistachio moguls in the central valley and clearing the land for "open air prisons".

@npr.org did a fact-check ⬇️

Critically assessing the idea of wildfire managed retreat - IOPscienceSearch Critically assessing the idea of wildfire managed retreat, McConnell, Kathryn, Koslov, Liz

Shoutout to Kathryn McConnell and @koslov.bsky.social for putting together a very useful primer on managed retreat as a response to wildfire risk, a topic that deserves much more serious thought and attention than it's getting at the moment

Fires are burning blocks away from where Octavia Butler is buried.

How to help those affected by fires raging across Los Angeles County Those looking to assist residents affected by the Los Angeles County firestorm have a number of options to donate money, materials or their time.

www.latimes.com/california/s... shuddering at the images and stories trickling in, friends please stay safe

Luigi Mangione in orange jumpsuit in the center of the frame, flanked by law enforcement officers, his hands are clasped and bound in front of him he looks off to the side pensively, seriously does this guy just not photograph poorly at all?

"Okay, get some snaps of that Mangione character, but you better not pull any bullshit where he looks like the subject in a 16th century painting called 'Christ taken at the Garden of Gethsemane'."
"Okay, now don't be mad but..."

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Scientists Behind ‘Net Zero’ Concept Say Nations Are Getting It Wrong In a new study, high-profile climate scientists say countries are using flawed carbon accounting by relying too heavily on trees and oceans to absorb new carbon emissions.

"A new analysis skewers the assumption that a ton of CO2 is the same everywhere, whether in the atmosphere, embedded in wood or pumped underground. Turns out that's a vast oversimplification & could render net-zero efforts meaningless" - from @eroston.bsky.social

www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

‘The smell hurts’: why has the supreme court washed its hands of Argentina’s ‘rotten river’? Campaigners fear ruling on the toxic Matanza-Riachuelo basin will worsen the region’s many health crises and sends the message that environmental damage is not a priority Two decades ago, the waters in Argentina’s basin flowed over abandoned shipwrecks…

‘The smell hurts’: why has the supreme court washed its hands of Argentina’s ‘rotten river’?

Trump’s science-denying fanatics are bad enough. Yet even our climate ‘solutions’ are now the stuff of total delusion | George Monbiot The ‘progress’ made at Cop29 has been on carbon markets: a world of magical thinking, over-claiming and distorted truth, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... key points esp re:soil carbon storage fantasies...

Some good climate news: judge rejects Gov. Youngkin's attempt to ignore Virginia state law in trying to withdraw from the regional greenhouse gas initiative (RGGI). Great work from NRDC!
www.nrdc.org/press-releas...

Matthew's book is rad, highly encourage anyone lucky enough to be in London to attend

How Attacks Against Obamacare Turned Into Tools to Protect Abortion Access Conservatives amended state constitutions to affirm broad rights for people to choose their health care. Now abortion rights proponents are taking them at their word.

BIG NEWS: A Wyoming judge just struck down WY's abortion bans.

And get this: The judge invoked a constitutional amendment codifying a right to make health care decisions... that was passed in 2012 by conservatives who thought it'd screw Obamacare! Just backfired.

We explained this lawsuit here:

Loss and Damage Published in Journal of Architectural Education (Vol. 78, No. 2, 2024)

“the violence wreaked on Black, Indigenous, and Global South communities through enslavement, empire, and colonialism has always been intergenerational. The effects of violence on those communities haunt contemporary arguments about loss and damage.”
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

The enabling conditions for the abuse revealed from 2016 onward seem so obvious (and publicly documented) in retrospect. The Karolyis' culpability is their legacy... but likewise for all the people and systems that enabled them for the sake of the medals

www.texasmonthly.com/arts-enterta... Given Bela's passing, it's striking to read articles like this one from 1991. So much is spelled out: the conventional wisdom about tiny bodies he did so much to create, the isolated training environment of the ranch, the silent gymnasts...

The Onion should buy Elsevier next

From September but far more helpful than most of the post-election commentary floating around at the moment

The 2024 Antipode RGS-IBG Lecture—“Where is Palestine? Singapore on the Med, Spaceships, and the Mount of Olives” - Antipode Online Laleh KhaliliInstitute of Arab and Islamic StudiesUniversity of Exeter ***Update, 12 November 2024: a recording of the lecture is now available below*** If you’ll be attending the Royal Geographical S...

A recording of the 2024 Antipode RGS-IBG Lecture, "Where is Palestine? Singapore on the Med, Spaceships, and the Mount of Olives" by @lalehkhalili.bsky.social is now available at antipodeonline.org/2024/08/14/2...

‘Devious’ New Deep Sea Slug Hid Its Identity From Scientists It took nearly 25 years for biologists to discover that a swimming and glowing organism in the ocean’s midnight zone was actually a sea slug.

www.nytimes.com/2024/11/12/s... sea slug news > political news today